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ovario depresse globoso, .sub-4-gono, glabro ; stylo fere ad 
basin diviso, laciniis erectis, stigmatibus subcapitatis ; drupa 
globosa, piperis mole, pyrenibus 4, monospermis. — Prope 
Cumana [non vidi). 
The above characters, from Kunth’s description, conform 
with this genus, only that the style is more deeply divided 
than usual : the specimen from which they were taken, how- 
ever, was stated to be incomplete, and apparently without 
flowers and with immature fruit. We find a parallel of the 
almost fasciculate leaves in C. Guildingiana and in some spe- 
cies of Bourreria. The leaves are 2 inches long, on a petiole 
4-5 lines in length ; the panicle is 1 inch long ; the placenta- 
tion of the ovary after the fall of the corolla conforms to the 
character of the genus. 
19. Crematomia(^) liuanita\ — Morelosia huanita, LI. et Lex. 
Nov. Veg. Desc. 1 ; Don^ Diet. iv. 392 ; — ramulis tortuosis, 
ultimis deformatis, angulatis ; foliis in extremitate ramu- 
lorum ovatis, nitidis, integerrimis, longe petiolatis : pani- 
culis corymbosis, terminalibus ; floribus plurimis, sessilibus, 
articulatis et caducis, odoratissimis ; calyce coriaceo, ven- 
tricose tubuloso, 5-fido ; corollm tubo calyce subbreviore, 
lobis rotundis, aestivatione inter se cucullatim imbricatis, 
demum paten tissimis ; filamentis medio tubi insertis, subu- 
latis, imo tomentosis ; antheris exsertis, sagittatis, polline 
albido ; ovario conico, striato ; stylo apice 2-fido, cum stig- 
matibus clavatis ; di’upa globosa, sub-4-gona, subcamosa, 
coriacea, nitida, styli vestigio apiculata, imo laciniis caly- 
cinis circumdata ; nuce oblonga, 4-sulcata, loculis 4 mono- 
spermis (an in acheniis 4 demum solubili?). — In ]\Iexico, 
ad Urupuam, prov. Mechoacan (Valladolid) {non vidi). 
The Morelosia of La Llave and Lexarza has always been a 
genus of doubtful position : by its authors it was considered to be 
near Cordiacece on the one hand, and near Ebenaceee on the other. 
Endlicher placed it after Symplocos, stating that its ovary was 
inferior and adnate to the calyx — an eiTor arising from an 
ambiguous expression in its original character. Prof. De 
Candolle showed (Prodr. x. 177) that it cannot belong to 
Borragineui^ Ehenaceoe.^ or Styracece. The characters given 
of it are sufficiently clear, showing that its ovary is superior 
and enclosed in a tubular per igy nous corolla^ and that its fruit 
is supported by the ruptured segments of the calyx. The error 
above-mentioned has arisen from the expression of the author, 
“ calyx adherens,” meaning or attached to the base of 
the drupe. Its bifid style, combined with its other cliaracters, 
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